A varied collection of plays, television and film scripts. They are arranged in four themed sections: Identity, Turning points, Deception and Laughter. The collection includes extracts from Henry V, The Elephant Man, Blackadder, Doctor Who, The Alchemist, The Wind in the Willows and Fawlty Towers.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Identity: Beauty and the Beast, Laurence Boswell; Doctor Who: Human nature, Paul Cornell; The Elephant Man, De Vore, Bergen and Lynch; A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbury; Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka. 2. Turning Points: Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar; Treasure Island, (Robert Louis Stevenson), David Calcutt; Trifles, Susan Glaspell; Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw; Henry V, William Shakespeare. 3. Deception: Lad Carl, John O'Connor; The Wind in the Willows, (Kenneth Grahame), Alan Bennett; The Foreigner, Larry Shue; Blackadder, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. 4. Laughter: Wyrd Sisters, (Terry Pratchett), Stephen Briggs; Fawlty Towers: a Touch of Class, John Cleese and Connie Booth; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, (Oscar Wilde), Constance Cox; The Alchemist, Ben Johnson.